Iran Agreement

by Editor
January 14, 2014 at 8:46 am

https://www.smartertimes.com/1106/iran-agreement

The New York Times has an editorial praising an interim agreement concerning Iran's nuclear program. The Times editorial, headlined, "Another Step Toward Nuclear Sanity in Iran," says, "This would be the most significant restraint ever on a program that has threatened international stability since it was first disclosed in 2002 and an undeniably important step toward the peaceful resolution of a serious dispute. Even so, dangerously misguided forces, including leading Democrats and Republicans in Congress, are working to sabotage it."

This is quite a judgment for the Times to reach, considering a news article on page one of the same Times that carries the editorial reports, "The full text of the agreement has not yet been released, arousing the suspicions of critics, though the White House said on Monday that it would soon be made available to lawmakers."

In the editorial, the front-page news article, and a foreign-section news article — thousands of words of coverage — the Times makes no mention of the news that the "moderate" foreign minister of Iran, Javad Zarif, yesterday laid a wreath at the grave in Beirut of Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh. For that highly newsworthy news you have to read Elliott Abrams' Pressure Points blog or The Tower.